X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org MIME-Version: 1.0 From: "Gerrit P. Haase" Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 15:52:07 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Perl-5.10.README: outdated information To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Hello Reini, the Perl README states: === - The CPAN repository and build directory *must* reside in a path mounted in binmode: mount -s -b -f c:/cygwin/home/username/.cpan /home/username/.cpan mount -u -b -f c:/cygwin/home/username/.cpan /home/username/.cpan where username is your home path and cygwin / windows username. After mounting like this it should work with only few warnings or completely without problems, depending on your environment settings for the CYGWIN variable. === However there were changes, obviously the mount utility changed: $ mount -s -b -f c:/cygwin/home/Gerrit/.cpan /home/Gerrit/.cpan mount: unknown option -- s Usage: mount [OPTION] [ ] mount -a mount Display information about mounted filesystems, or mount a filesystem -a, --all mount all filesystems mentioned in fstab -c, --change-cygdrive-prefix change the cygdrive path prefix to -f, --force force mount, don't warn about missing mount point directories -h, --help output usage information and exit -m, --mount-entries write fstab entries to replicate mount points and cygdrive prefixes -o, --options X[,X...] specify mount options -p, --show-cygdrive-prefix show user and/or system cygdrive path prefix -v, --version output version information and exit Valid options are: acl,auto,binary,bind,cygexec,dos,exec,ihash,noacl,nosuid,notexec,nouser ,override,posix=0,posix=1,text,user I just noticed this, no idea if it is still needed, and which command to issue to ensure the binmode option for the CPAN path. regards, Gerrit -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple